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1 online resource (4012 pages) |
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Handbooks in Economics ; v. 1 |
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Handbooks in economics
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| Contents |
Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Copyright; Dedication; Reviewers; Preface; Introduction; In memoriam: Paul W. Miller (1955-2013); Introduction to the Series; Copyright; Dedication; Reviewers; Preface; Introduction; In memoriam: Paul W. Miller (1955-2013); Volume 1A: The Immigrants; Part I. The Determinants of International Migration; Chapter 1: Migration Theory; Abstract; 1 Overview; 2 From Adam Smith to the New Millennium; 3 Recent Theoretical Analyses of Why People Migrate; 4 Conclusions and Implications for Further Research |
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Chapter 2: Two Centuries of International MigrationAbstract; 1 Migration and Globalization to 1950; 2 International Migration Since 1950; 3 International Migration and Policy in the Future; Cameo 1: World Migration in Historical Perspective: Four Big Issues; 1 Emigration Life Cycles, Industrial Revolutions, and Demographic Transitions; 2 Brain Drain, Brain Gain, Skill Premia, and Endogenous Schooling Responses; 3 Migration, Remittances, Financial Development, and Convergence; 4 Migration Timing, the Ten Percent Rule, and Political Backlash; Acknowledgments |
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Part II. The Adjustment of ImmigrantsChapter 3: The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market; Abstract; 1 Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes-Theoretical and Methodological Considerations; 2 Individual Attributes and Motives for Migrating; 3 Beyond the Individual-Economic and Social Contexts Affecting Labor Market Outcomes; 4 Labor Market Outcomes for Immigrant Women; 5 Immigrant Economic Adjustment: Evidence from Countries Other than the United States; 6 Summary and Directions for Further Research; Acknowledgments; Chapter 4: The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America; Abstract |
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1 Introduction2 Schooling of Migrants and the Native-Born; 3 The Changing Education Gap of Immigrants; 4 The Educational Diversity of Migrants; 5 Foreign Students at American Schools; 6 Immigrant Education and Generational Assimilation; 7 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 5: International Migration and the Economics of Language; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Research Issues and Methodology; 3 Choice of Destination; 4 Determinants of Language Proficiency; 5 Effects of Language on Earnings; 6 Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 6: Immigrants and Immigrant Health; Abstract |
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1 Introduction2 Determinants of the HIE; 3 The National Health Interview Survey; 4 Measuring Immigrant Health and Assimilation; 5 Analyzing Cohort and Assimilation Effects; 6 The Healthy Immigrant Effect; 7 Conclusions; Chapter 7: Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility; Abstract; 1 Motivation: Why Study Immigrant Marriage and Fertility?; 2 Methodological Challenges to the Study of Immigrant Marriage and Fertility; 3 Marriage and Divorce Among Immigrants; 4 Fertility; 5 Conclusion; Cameo 2: Immigrants and Religion; 1 Introduction; 2 Economics of Religion |
| Summary |
The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associate |
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3 Immigrant Religiosity |
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Print version record |
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- History
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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Emigration and immigration
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Paul
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| ISBN |
9780444633880 |
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044463388X |
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